. "History" . . . "Letters received by philanthropist, social reformer, and doctor to the blind Samuel Gridley Howe of Boston, Mass., 1838-74, mostly pertaining to anti-slavery activities in Kansas, 1855-61. Letters discuss the New England Emigrant Aid Company, the Free Soil Party, the exploits of John Brown, and the Kansas Fund. Letters were sent by Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr., Martin F. Conway, Samuel P. Lyman, George L. Stearns, and Edmund B. Whitman, among others. Also includes letters sent to Howe discussing the practice of phrenology and the water cure 1838-54, and notes made by Howe for a speech on the annexation of Santo Domingo, ca. late 1860's- early 1870's." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Letters recieved by Samuel Gridley Howe" . . . . . . . . "Dominican Republic" . . "Kansas" . .